Awake and Sing!

Awake and Sing! — Plot

The Bergers, a blue-collar Jewish family living in an overstuffed tenement and undone by the Depression, struggle through hard times and dream of a better future in this 1972 production of Clifford Odets' pungent play. Personalities and politics clash as Odets' mélange of characters try to survive on pennies a day. Walter Matthau plays cynical World War I amputee Moe Axelrod, and Leo Fuchs portrays the family's iron-willed leftist grandfather.

• Release date
• March 6, 1972
• Runtime
• 95 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Norman Lloyd

Awake and Sing! — Cast

Walter Matthau Moe Axelrod Ron Rifkin Sam Feinschreiber Felicia Farr Hennie Martin Ritt Uncle Morty Leo Fuchs Jacob Robert Lipton Ralph Berger John Myhers Schlosser

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Ruth Storey Bessie Berger